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Health and Medical Resources Directory

Just ran across this nice Health and Medical Resources Directory. They say: This Healthcare Resources directory provides over ten thousand links to healthcare providers, physicians, medical centers, hospital and other health related services. It’s missing a search engine but otherwise it’s pretty nice.

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One table to contain all lookup data is not a good idea

Elyse posted a design pattern (antipattern?) in AntiClue’s One table to contain all lookup data article and followed it up a few weeks later with an example. I wrote an article called Repeat After Me: Healthcare Data Models Matter which was published over at IBM’s HealthNex and Tim’s HIStalk blogs because I wanted their audiences to hear what I wanted to say on the matter. In that article I said that you can not treat databases as a file cabinet – just letting your application toss whatever is necessary into a bunch of tables and then organizing it later is a recipe for disaster.

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A reader asks about how to evaluate EMRs & EHRs vendors

A reader posed the following question this morning: I am an MD in a 350 physician multispecialty medical group. We are owned by a multi-hospital system that just signed a contract with McKesson to provide new enterprise level Software for all of the hospitals, but did not buy any ambulatory EMR. I’ve been assigned to a committee to preview various ambulatory EMRs Specifically for our physician group. I know that McKesson has a product Named Horizon.

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Notes from the HIMMS “Enabling e-Health for RHIOs” Webinar

I attended the HIMMS Enabling e-Health for RHIOs webinar, presented by Sun Microsystems, this afternoon. Overall I found it informative, not too vendor-preachy, and generally filled with practical knowledge. Mike Haymaker and Wayne Owens from Sun and Dr. Steven Carson, CMO of San Diego’s CMS, presented the deck. Since I’m a technologist who happens to know healthcare informatics (not a healthcare person looking to learn about technology) I found the two Sun folks knowledgable but I really like what Dr.

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CNN reports huge growth for tech in health sector

CNN is reporting the obvious in their _ Huge growth for tech in health sector_ article. Some highlights: Worldwide, the healthcare information technology market is estimated to be worth more than $50 billion a year, and industry executives — lining up for a slice of the action — told a conference this week its growth would be in double digits for the foreseeable future. And, though it’s not new to anyone reading this blog regularly, they say:

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Technology for networked medical devices

It is very common for networked medical applications that need to work consistently even when momentarily disconnected. I ran across an interesting technology at IBM called FluidSync. It seems to be helpful in those situations when a user needs to use an application across several devices and be able to maintain the application state across the devices seamlessly. For example, if a nurse is moving between several rooms across several computers she would be able to run the same application across the machines and see the same data across the machines while she moves.

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